Test 8 · ★ · Skating and sports safety

Why are elbow and knee pads useful for a beginner on a skateboard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: elbow

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 elbow	cop
3	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pads	cc
5	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pads	compound
6	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 elbow	conj
7	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pads	amod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 beginner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beginner	det
10	beginner	beginner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useful	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 skateboard	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 skateboard	det
13	skateboard	skateboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beginner	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		elbow and knee pads					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They make the board go straighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 board	det
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	straighter	straight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the board					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the board not said here					straight property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They help you balance on one foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj
4	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 foot	nummod
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	They	you					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	balance	infinitive	you not said here			one foot			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Elbows and knees often hit the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 knees	cc
3	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Elbows	conj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 hit	advmod
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Elbows and knees	the ground				often property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

Option 4

They make you lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	you				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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